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tracyp · 06-30-2010, 10:13 PM

That's a good one.

R. Lee Ermey was never really a Gunnery Sergeant. He was a Staff Sergeant. In 2002 he was given a honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant.

sheepherder · 07-01-2010, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by tracyp

That's a good one.

R. Lee Ermey was never really a Gunnery Sergeant. He was a Staff Sergeant. In 2002 he was given a honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant.

...by the [then] Commandant no less!!!

I never really understood why Kubrick made him a gunny in Full Metal Jacket...when I was in, the highest DI rank was Staff Sgt...your series had a Series Gunnery Sgt, but he was all admin, not hands-on training...We only saw the Series Gunny when he was whipping through the barracks ["the barn"] with some paperwork problem...and the only time we saw an officer (before Final Inspection) was when we got our UCMJ lecture...

Neil Young · 07-01-2010, 07:50 AM

My senior DI was a Gunny, and he was definitely a hands-on DI, and I mean that literally. Of course, I was in boot camp in 1956, so things may not have been the same in more recent years.

Neil

07-01-2010, 07:50 AM	#3
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06-30-2010, 10:13 PM	#1
tracyp User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Peoples Republic of Kalifornia Posts: 391 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	That's a good one. R. Lee Ermey was never really a Gunnery Sergeant. He was a Staff Sergeant. In 2002 he was given a honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant.